Critical properties of 1-D spin 1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model

We discuss numerical results for the 1-D spin 1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with next-to-nearest neighbour coupling and in the presence of an uniform magnetic field. The model develops zero frequency excitations at field dependent soft mode momenta. We compute critical quantities from finite size dependence of static structure factors.Comment: talk given by H. Kr{\"o}ger at Heraeus Seminar Theory of Spin Lattices and Lattice Gauge Models, Bad Honnef (1996), 20 pages, LaTeX + 18 figures, P

Improvement of physicochemical parameters of acyclovir using cocrystallization approach

ABSTRACT Acyclovir is an antiviral drug having potent activity against the virus of herpes family and varicella zoster. Unfortunately, drug suffers very poor oral bioavailability (15-30%). The main objective of present study was to develop acyclovir cocrystals with improved solubility which may result in improvement of bioavailability. Hansen solubility approach was used as a tool to predict the cocrystal formation of a drug with selected coformer. Cocrystals of acyclovir with various coformers were screened in order to enhance their water solubility. Cocrystals of the drug were prepared using various methods like solvent evaporation, wet grinding, and antisolvent addition. Formation of cocrystals by solvent evaporation method was found to be better method amongst all. Optimization of cocrystal formation was carried out by employing different solvents as well as the stoichiometric ratio of acyclovir with that of coformer. Synthesis of cocrystals was optimized using water as a solvent system resulted in good agreements. The potential cocrystal formation of acyclovir was characterized by IR, PXRD and DSC techniques. An in-vitro dissolution study was performed to determine the dissolution rate of cocrystals. The results suggest that acyclovir forms cocrystals with tartaric acid and the initial dissolution rate of synthesized cocrystals were considerably faster as compared to pure acyclovir

Toward a quantitative description of crystal packing in terms of molecular pairs: application to the hexamorphic crystal system, 5-methyl-2-[ (2-nitrophenyl)amino]-3-thiophenecarbonitrile

Elements of a theory of crystal packing are presented in the form of a systematic analysis of crystal packing molecular pairs, i.e., neighboring molecule-molecule pairs in the crystal, rather than in terms of selected intermolecular atom-atom contacts. Intermolecular energies, based on the molecular electron density distribution and partitioned over Coulombic, polarization, dispersion, and repulsion contributions, are calculated for such pairs by the Pixel-semiclassical density sums (SCDS) method, recently updated for a better treatment of the dependence between electron density overlap and repulsion energy. The advantages of the pairs treatment are illustrated by a study of the six known polymorphs of 5-methyl-2-[(2-nitrophenyl)amino]-3- thiophenecarbonitrile, in which diffuse interactions between aromatic rings over a wide range of stacking modes are shown to contribute more to the cohesive energy than do lateral interactions between polar moieties, often described as weak hydrogen bonds

Structure of [4.4.4]propellane and [4.4.4]propellatriene by <i>X</i>-ray Analysis

The crystal structures of [4.4.4]propellane (monoclinic, a=12.053, b=7.832, c=13.001 Å, β=104.89°, space group C2/c, Z=4) and [4.4.4]propellatriene (monoclinic, a=7.876, b=12.651, c=13.164 Å, β=122.81°, space group P21/c,Z=4) have been determined by X-ray analysis. In propellane the six-membered rings are in the chair conformation, in propellatriene they adopt the ‘half-chair’ conformation with a twofold axis passing through the centre of each double bond. In both cases the observed parameters correspond to virtual D3(32) molecular symmetry. Corrections have been applied for the effect of molecular libration. Strain-minimization calculations based on semi-empirical potential functions have been carried out and the molecular parameters so derived are compared with the experimental values.</p